
The Scarlet Pimpernel races to rescue the imprisoned Dauphin amid French Revolution dangers and clashes with Citizen Chauvelin.
The Scarlet Pimpernel races to rescue the imprisoned Dauphin amid French Revolution dangers and clashes with Citizen Chauvelin.
The elusive Pimpernel returns for another swashbuckling adventure in El Dorado. The still-raging French Revolution continues to claim lives, and the shadow of the guillotine draws ever nearer to the young Dauphin, son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. No one dares to attempt to liberate the little prince — no one, that is, but the mysterious Sir Percy Blakeney, also known as the Scarlet Pimpernel. Sir Percy takes on one of Robespierre's agents, the scheming Citizen Chauvelin, in a suspenseful b...
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Marital devotion and romantic tension; kisses and emotional intimacy only
Sleep-deprivation torture; guillotine peril; revolutionary violence and deaths
Rare mild period expressions; no strong profanity
Social drinking in aristocratic and period settings
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Passing period references only
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French Revolution intrigue central; royalists versus republican agents
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Child prince in cruel captivity; psychological torture of a prisoner
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